Photos: Testing space capsule recovery

The Navy and NASA tested how they’ll recover astronauts once they splash down in the ocean following future deep space missions.

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NASA, Navy test space capsule recovery

The Navy and NASA tested how they’ll recover astronauts once they splash down in the ocean following future deep space missions. Thursday, August 15, 2013, a team of Navy divers and the crew of the USS Arlington practiced retrieving a mock-up of the Orion space capsule from the water near Naval Station Norfolk.